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Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, LMU Munich,
language: English, abstract: There is a contemporary caricature,
that describes the problem of an own language between Germany and
France fairly good. On a roof, there are the French Cockerel, the
Alsatian Stork in the middle and the German Eagle. Both the French
and the German bird are attempting to make the stork speak their
language. After the stork struggles to speak these languages, the
neighbours become impatient and louder. The Alsatian bird finally
cries: 'Mir langst jetz mit ejch zwei, nundediawle Ich redd wie mir
de Schnawel gewachse isch ' Situated at the French border to
Germany, the Alsace is a region where also the linguistic border in
between German and French can be found. As it used to belong to
both Germany and France at certain points in its history, an
interesting situation of language use and contact has evolved over
the last centuries. In France its 1.8 million inhabitants are often
referred to as Germans, even though it is part of France and in
spite of the fact, that the official language is French since
Alsace-Lorraine has been handed back to France after World War 2.
Nevertheless an Upper German dialect called Alsatian
(Elsasserditsch) is still spoken there.
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